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I think you should of bought stock in Naval Jelly before you started this project lol

So far I have used 5 bottles of Naval Jelly on the trunk lid. I also used some left over liquid phosphoric for one treatment of the outer skin. The liquid doesn't work so well since it runs off. I have only one bottle of NJ left and I'm not sure that will be enough. I'm having trouble finding NJ now, it seemed everybody sold it a year ago, now I can only find it at Home Depot and they don't sell the larger bottles.

I have also used about $30 worth of wire wheel brushes. I generally get them from Northern tool for $1.49 or $1.99 depending on the size. However Northern Tool is out of stock, so I end up buying the same made in China brush from Home Depot, but packaged in a plastic card pack for $3.87. I have also used around $25 worth of DA sanding pads and 3" reloc disc pads. This is not even cheap when you do it yourself!

Here is the bracing with full cleaning. It's actually looks a little better than I thought it did last night when I called it a night.


Now for some close ups of various areas. I don't know what flash is picking up to create the yellow reflection, the metal is not yellow. In this closeup you can see most of the rust has been removed but there is still a few pits with black.


A shot showing the front part of the bracing, this is looking pretty good.


The lip that the skin folds over is clear of rust for about half of the edge.


Some parts still have a lot of rust remaining.


This corner is mostly clear of rust, only a small amount of black specs left.


And of course painting it will Naval Jelly again. I have quit coating some of the areas that are clear of rust. Some of the problem areas may require another 3 or 4 treatments.


I'm probably going to take a break from the rust treatment and work on something else for a day or two, this rust removal gets old in a hurry.